Quirino is a 4th class municipality in the province of Ilocos Sur, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 7,130 people in 1,348 households. Image File history File links Ph_locator_ilocos_sur_quirino. ... A municipality (bayan, sometimes munisipalidad, in Filipino) is a local government unit in the Philippines. ... Map of the Philippines showing all the regions and their provinces. ... Ilocos Sur is a province of the Philippines located in the Ilocos Region in Luzon. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...
Barangays
Quirino is politically subdivided into 9 barangays. A barangay also known as barrio (Filipino: baranggay , pronounced as ba-rang-gai, gai as in guy) is the smallest local government unit in the Philippines and is the native Filipino term for a village,barrio, district, ward or town. ...
Its capital is Vigan City and borders Ilocos Norte and Abra to the north, Mountain Province to the east, and La Union and Benguet to the south.
To the west of IlocosSur is the South China Sea.
It is bounded by Ilocos Norte on the north, Abra on the northeast, Mountain Province on the east, Benguet on the southeast, La Union on the south, and the China Sea on the west.
Elpidio Quirino (November 16, 1890 - February 29, 1956) was a political leader and the sixth President of the Philippines.
Born on November 16, 1890 in Vigan, IlocosSur to Mariano Quirino of the same province and Gregoria Rivera of Agoo, La Union, Quirino spent his early years in Aringay, La Union.
Quirino's administration faced a serious threat in the form of the communist Hukbalahap (Huk) movement.
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